From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jul 29 10:29:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FA6B37B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:29:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kitchen.brianosaurus.org (adsl-64-170-202-12.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.170.202.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8527B43E65 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:29:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brianosaurus@yahoo.com) Received: from adsl-64-170-202-11.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (adsl-64-170-202-11.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.170.202.11]) by kitchen.brianosaurus.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C5D4B33C; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:29:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:30:03 -0700 Subject: Re: netgear MA401RA weirdness Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org To: "Mark A-J. Raught" From: Brian Gottlieb In-Reply-To: <3D433ED2.9C8CEC84@acm.org> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, July 27, 2002, at 05:46 PM, Mark A-J. Raught wrote: > Brian, > Here's what helped me. This was actually on a Linksys card for me, but > it was exactly the same symptoms and this fixed it. This is from a > thread around the 8th of May this year (relevant email attached at the > bottom). It got me going. If you need specifics let me know and I will > did up my files (I'm on a windows machine at the moment). I think it was > just a -p 0 on both of the machines and a -c 1 on the wireless routing > machine. I gave -p 0 a shot, but it didn't help. in fact i tried "-p" with everything from 0-6 just for kicks. When i set it to "-p 0", however, all of the 802.11 info (ssid, station name, channel, wepmode, etc) disappears from the "ifconfig wi0" listing, so i'm not sure what the deal is there. One thing i noticed is that the "NIC serial number" from wicontrol output is "99SA01000000", rather than the "MA41B26185676" printed on the card, which makes me think that something in fact isn't quite right. The MAC addrs do match up, so i don't know what to make of it. But still, when "dstumbler -o" puts it into monitor mode, it sees my basestation and all the other clients. But in normal modes, it won't join my wireless network. My setup is FreeBSD 4.6, Netgear MA401RA (box says MA401), trying to talk to an apple airport basestation. When i plug the card into a windows laptop, it syncs up just fine. When i plug it into my bsd box it just blinks. brian ps - i think i'm going to do the low-tech solution of swapping cards with my fiancee's old MA401, but i'm still kind of curious why this doesn't work... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message